IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON **

Jim Mickle's "In the Shadow of the Moon" is a cross between a sci-fi film and a serial killer thriller and if the sci-fi elements far outweigh the serial killer parts it hardly matters because this enjoyable, reasonably intelligent and rather daft movie never stops to draw breath and gives its leading actor, Boyd Holbrook, a part he can finally get his teeth into. He's a cop investigating a series of murders in Philadelphia in 1988 that end with the apparent death of the killer. Skip forward nine years and the exact same kind of killings start all over again.

Of course, with this kind of movie you have to suspend disbelief from the start and if you are prepared to give yourself over to it, it's actually a lot of fun. In a good supporting cast Michael C. Hall is a stand out as a senior detective who seems slower on the uptake than he ought to be. Excellent cinematography, too, from David Lanzenberg and a good score from Jeff Grace make this something of a guilty pleasure.